Three dead after weekend of violence across GTA

Three people were killed and several more injured during a particularly violent weekend across Toronto and the GTA.

Paramedics prepare to transport a stabbing victim to hospital on Sunday after the man was attacked inside Calvary Church on Pape Ave. The stabbing was one of a spate of knife attacks across the GTA this weekend.

Three people were killed and several more were injured during a violent weekend across the GTA.

The violent incidents included an unprovoked stabbing of a woman out for a morning walk in Mississauga, a knife attack inside a church, and a bloody brawl during a Tibetan New Year’s party that left one man dead and another wounded.

A man in his 30s suffered serious injuries after being stabbed several times in the torso inside Calvary Church, near Pape and Danforth Aves. at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Police said they have a male suspect in custody.

In an unrelated incident down the road, the homicide squad was busy investigating a suspicious death Sunday. For most of the day, police tape cordoned off an Esso gas station on the corner of Danforth and Greenwood Aves., and a house around the corner on Mountjoy Ave. Police were mum on the circumstances surrounding the incident.

In Mississauga, police were also busy after a 53-year-old woman was stabbed in the stomach during a 6 a.m. morning stroll. Police said the woman was walking near Eglinton Ave. and Guildwood Way when a man with his face covered approached the woman, stabbed her once and walked away.

The victim managed to make it home where she called 911. Police said the attack was unprovoked and she didn’t know the attacker.

Toronto emergency services were dispatched again after a man was fatally stabbed during a fight following a Tibetan New Year’s party at the Tibetan Canadian Culture Centre in Etobicoke early Sunday morning.

Paramedics said another man, who was involved in the incident, was also taken to hospital after he turned up in Mississauga a short time later with a single stab wound to the chest.

Saturday was also marred by violence. A shooting at a North York apartment building left a woman in her 20s dead and a man in police custody. Police said the woman was shot in the head in an apartment building near Eglinton Ave. and Don Mills Rd.

The woman was found by paramedics around 2:30 p.m. in a fourth floor apartment and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Hamilton emergency services were also busy Saturday night after four people were injured — two seriously — during a stabbing rampage inside a highrise apartment in the city’s east end.

Misty Crouse, who lives across the street, said she saw what looked like a hunting knife in the suspect’s hand as he fled the building and climbed up the balcony of a pizza shop next door. She told the Hamilton Spectator police tasered the man, who appeared “out of it,” several times after he jumped off the balcony. The Special Investigations Unit was called to investigate the incident.